May 28, 2013ASC Board Room

Sign-in and get a handout Cell Phones – Please put your

cell phones on silent Restrooms New faces QAR Codes

Per Juan-Carlos Aguilar, DOE Science Program Manager: “we are not rolling out NGSS…We are revising our current

science GPS in view of the vision for science education set forth by the K-12 Framework for Science Education and

the NGSS”

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Precision review of the Science GPS will start in September of 2013.

Tentative date to submit revised Science GPS for adoption by the Georgia Board of Education is August of 2014.

Tentative date for adoption by the Georgia Board of Education of the revised Science GPS is November of 2014.

Professional Development for teachers on the revised Science GPS will begin in the 2014-2015 school year and will continue during the 2015-2016 school year.

First year of implementation of the new Science Standards will be in the 2016-2017 school year. Assessments will be aligned to the new standards at this time.

UPDATED TENTATIVE TIMELINE FOR REVISION!

Science Georgia Performance Standards

AWIM is a K-8 science and engineering based program funded by KIA with a three year implementation phase.

All 8th grade classrooms will use the JetToy Challenge during their Force & Motion Unit

Training for the JetToy Challenge will occur in September of 2013 prior to teaching the unit

The Motorized Toy Car is being evaluatedfor use in an exploratory class

The Glider Challenge is being evaluatedfor use in an ELT class

We are fortunate to have two content planning days for each subject area scheduled for the 2013-2014 school year

The content planning days will be two consecutive school days

The dates will be shared with you once they have been finalized on the professionallearning calendar

The remaining slides will touch onsome of the issues we will be discussingduring these content planning days

In early May, teachers came together to revise common unit assessments

Previous test questions and sample questions from other tests were used to develop preliminary common unit assessments

The process is not finished and will continue throughout the school year

The revised common unit assessments will be shared prior to teaching the unit

Although the tests have been revised with district assistance, please do not refer to themas District Assessments. Policy states that District tests (Benchmarks) are not re-tested

Constructed Response Items will be added to each Common Unit

Assessment Additional items will be developed for each

unit as supplemental resources The requirements and grading of the

constructed response items will be discussed in more detail during our upcoming content planning days

Formative Assessment Items will be developed for each unit that

should be used as Formative Assessments. These items may be constructed response

items as previously discussed or they may be in another format

Formative Assessment will be discussed in more detail during our upcoming content planning days

OAS (Online Assessment System) Due to a lack of computer lab time, OAS has

not been a practical option in previous years Additionally, OAS questions have not

been the best examples of aligned content (many questions are still from QCC objectives)

However, OAS has been revised In our efforts to develop constructed

response and formative assessment items,we will re-evaluate OAS items.

This past year, we started the process of curriculum alignment. The process is massive and it still on-going.

Content Unit pages will be revised or developed based on this curriculum alignment

Some content maps, concepts, or essential questions may be revised during the alignment process

http://troup612resources.troup.k12.ga.us/curriculum1/science/8_science/waves/waves.html

Pretest window August 12th – 16th The pretest does not have to be given all on one

day The first unit overlaps with the pretest window

Remediate and/or Accelerate Days For most units, there are two days at the end of

the unit designated for remediation or acceleration Principals agreed to return to our previous

benchmark schedule; therefore, somegroups may have Benchmark II afterSpring Break

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